NEW WHEAT
HIGHLY RESISTANT TO RUST DISEASE DISCOVERY AT CAMBRIDGE LONDON, August 8. 'After 10 years of research Professor Engledow, Draper’s Professor of Agriculture at Cambridge University, has discovered a new wheat believed to be superior to any of the British varieties. Five crops proved a yield 10 per cent higher than the best of other varieties. The straw is 6in shorter and considerably stouter, while the grain is highly resistant to rust disease.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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74NEW WHEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 5
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